i had much going on so i was a bit of absent from Steemit for the past 5 months. It was kind the same like with you. I wasn't interacting nor making any posts especially given my 0 free time but i caught a glimpse of the upcoming hardfork. To tell you the truth i was a bit frustrated and thought this going to fail badly. To be perfectly honest i didn't read a lot about it's features.

Now that i have a bit more free time and i wanted to get back on my steemit world i checked and still checking some posts to see what i missed. I follow you for years, i recall skapaneas suggested you since i joined!

From what i get although the rewards are 50/50 and may seem less, the road leads to curation right? To be more exact careful curation and even manual? If that's the case that's great for me!

I haven't used a bot service since i got here and i curate manually every single post while trying to read it and interact by commenting with the person made as i would like someone to do the same for me. i was sicked and tired with all this bot abuse and this thing that you mentioned (i quote it below) reminded me all the hard-work that i thought many time it was for nothing

If you started off on Steem with 1000 SP just like someone else, you would end up with 1150 SP at the end of the year being an honest voter, while the other person would end up with 1600 SP instead for doing the total opposite of what you're doing.